Moonlight (2016)

Moonlight Synopsis

A timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.

If you're excited for Moonlight

Latest Moonlight News

The debacle that was the announcement of Best Picture at the 2017 Academy Awards just won't die. And neither will Warren Beatty's resolve to explain what really happened that night. Read on to watch Beatty recall that infamous night.

How The Oscars Will Handle The Accountants And The Envelopes Moving Forward

The Best Picture screw up at this year's Academy Awards is still a topic of conversation a month later. However, today we're talking not about the screw-up, but about the way that Ryan Gosling reacted to it.

Dirk Libbey
Mar 23, 2017

What Really Happened When Ryan Gosling Got The Giggles During The Oscar Flub

When I ask this question, it regularly gets mixed results -- with some filmmakers and actors admitting that they avoid revising their own work -- but this was the first time I ever talked to somebody who expressed as much passion about something of which they've been a part.

Eric Eisenberg
Mar 23, 2017

The Shocking Number Of Times Trevante Rhodes Has Watched Moonlight

The next installment of the Predator franchise -- directed by Shane Black and titled simply The Predator -- is now in the midst of production... but information about the story has only been leaked in drips and drabs.

How The Academy Is Punishing The Accountants Who Screwed Up The Best Picture

People will be talking about the end of this year's Academy Awards for a long time to come. Jimmy Kimmel was at the heart of the chaos and according to him, we have Denzel Washington to thank for bringing some semblance of order back to the proceedings.

Dirk Libbey
Feb 28, 2017

How Denzel Washington Helped Save The Oscars After That Flub, According To Jimmy Kimmel

Watch How Moonlight And Mahershala Ali Built One Of The Movie’s Greatest Characters

When Warren Beatty accidently announced the wrong winner for Best Picture last night the viewing audience went varying degrees of crazy. Of course, if you thought the internet was shocked, you should see the audience in the theater.

Dirk Libbey
Feb 27, 2017

The Oscars Crowd Reactions To The Best Picture Mix-Up Are Exactly As Stunned As You'd Guess

The distribution of last night's Best Picture prize will certainly go down in Oscar history, as it was something unlike anything the audience of millions had seen before, but the really important thing to take away from all of it is this: the right movie ultimately walked away with the award.

Eric Eisenberg
Feb 27, 2017

Why Moonlight Deserved To Win The Best Picture Oscar

The biggest award of the evening, and Warren Beatty was given the wrong card. How? Well, PricewaterhouseCoopers, the audit and assurance firm tasked with handling the nominees on Oscars night made a mistake. This is their official statement, issued in the wee hours of Oscars night.

Which Movie Should Actually Win The Best Picture Oscar, According To Moviegoers

Figuring out how individual people are going to react to something is nearly impossible because people are really hard to predict. However, this hasn't stopped somebody from trying to use pure numbers to figure out who the big winners are going to be at this weekend's Academy Awards.

How To Watch Every 2017 Academy Awards Best Picture Nominee

Even when the BAFTAs differed from the Academy, as they did the last two years with The Revenant and Boyhood, they had eventual Oscar winners Spotlight and Birdman in the running in their Best Picture category.

Sean O'Connell
Jan 17, 2017

The BAFTA Nominees That Could Hear Their Names Called On Oscar Nomination Morning

Coming off of last weekend Golden Globe Awards it would seem like the musical La La Land is the film to beat. However, one company has now used an interesting method to predict who the Best Picture will be at the Oscars, and it's not a musical at all.

Dirk Libbey
Jan 11, 2017

A High-Tech Analytics Program Just Picked The Oscar Frontrunner, And It Ain’t La La Land

The 10 Best Lines Of Movie Dialogue In 2016

While terrible in other aspects, 2016 was a remarkable year for film. From beginning to end, I got to see more than 130 movies released this year, and while that included some really bad stuff, most of it actually ranged from good to brilliant.

The 10 Best Movie Music Moments Of 2016

This morning's announcement of the 2017 SAG Awards nominees threw some weight behind Kenneth Lonergan's Manchester By The Sea and Moonlight, but put a ding in the suit of awards armor that has encased La La Land up to this point.